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i Letters Patent No. 99,719, dated February V8, 187 0.Y

IMPROVEMENT IN HARROW.

The Schedule referred to inthese Letters Patent andmaking part of the same To all lwhom it may concern.

Be it known thatwe, HENRY SHIRE and CYRUS SHIRK, of Lebanon, in the county of Lebanon, and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and valuable Improvement in Harrows; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same., reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, and to the letters and iigures of' reference marked thereon;

Figure l, of the drawings, is a representation of a central vertical section of my barrow and sulky.

FigureA 2 is a top view ofthe same with part of platform removed.

Our invention relates to that class of barrows which is arranged for attachment to sulkies and lt consists in `a novel arrangement of devices, by which such barrow may be raised or lowered at the operators will, without leaving his seat upon the sulky.

.lhe letter A, of .the drawings, represents a sulky, and

Letter B, our barrow attached thereto, and opcrated by the means following, namely:

We construct two braces orrods, C, and hinge them respectively to the front cross-bar of the harrow at ei ther end, and also to the front part of the sulky-platt'orm as shown in fig. 2 at the point broken oit, and

also on lig. 1.

To the middle beam of the barrow, we attach the rodsor bars D, in the manner shown in-the drawings,-

and also connect said bars, respectively, with the rear end ofv treadle E, hereinafter mentioned, by suitable'.

hinges or pivots, as shown.

The letter F represents a hook, rigidly attached at its lower end tothe front bar of the barrow, and adapted for hooking over the rod4 G that forms the rear connecting-bar of the'treadle E, in theV manner shown. A

The letter E representsa treadle, pivoted upon the axle immediately below the drivel-s seat, and adapted 'for ordinary purposes, by -means of the hand-lever H,

and it is held in the desired 4position by placing the edge of said lever under one of the teeth on the ratch- Vct-bar.

But when we desire to raise the barrow to any considerable distance from the ground, to pass large obstacles, the operator forces down the treadle with his foot, and thereby secures the otlices of the hook F in aiding to raise the entire barrow at once, and suspending it in the air.

What we claim as our invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

'lhe sulky-llarrow herein described, having sulky A, barrow B, rods C and l), treadle E, hook F, level' H and ratchet S, constructed and arranged to operate substantially as specified.

In testimony that we claim the above, We have hereunto subscribed our name, in the presence of two witnesses.

HENRY SHIRK. GYRUS SHIRK. vWitnesses:

BAPLER BOYER,- ANTHONY S.- Enit. 

